Eppa Hunton

Eppa Hunton (22 September 1822-11 October 1908) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War, a member of the US House of Representatives (D-VA 8) from 4 March 1873 to 4 March 1881 (succeeding William Terry and preceding John S. Barbour Jr.), and a US Senator from Virginia from 28 May 1892 to 4 March 1895 (succeeding Barbour and preceding Thomas S. Martin).

Biography
Eppa Hunton was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1822, and he worked as a teacher in The Plains, Fauquier County before becoming a lawyer in 1843. He rose to the rank of Brigadier-General in the state militia and also served as Commonwealth's Attorney from 1849 to 1861, when he was elected to the Virginia Secession Convention at the start of the American Civil War. When Virginia seceded, he became colonel of the 8th Virginia Infantry in the Confederate States Army, first fighting at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, and distinguishing himself at the Battle of Ball's Bluff later that same year. In 1862, he fought at the Battle of Williamsburg, the Battle of Seven Pines, the Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam, and the Battle of Fredericksburg. In 1863, he was promoted to brigade command in James Longstreet's corps, and he was promoted to Brigadier-General after suffering a leg wound in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. He went on to fight in the Overland Campaign and the Siege of Petersburg in 1864-5, and he was forced to surrender after the Battle of Sayler's Creek on 6 April 1865. After the war, he became a lawyer and opposed Reconstruction, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1873 to 1881 and in the US Senate from 1892 to 1895. He died in 1908.